Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
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In this chapter, you learned:
Red Hat Satellite 6 compliance policies can be used to centrally manage and review the results of OpenSCAP scans on its registered clients.
A Red Hat Satellite 6 compliance policy is a named, scheduled task that scans specific hosts for compliance with an OpenSCAP XCCDF profile.
OpenSCAP content must be uploaded to the Red Hat Satellite Server before it can be used in a compliance policy.
Clients update their compliance policy configuration using Puppet, run OpenSCAP scans locally, and upload the results to Red Hat Satellite.
The compliance policy dashboard in the Satellite Server's web UI provides an overview of compliant and noncompliant hosts, and links to detailed OpenSCAP compliance reports for each host.
A compliance policy can be customized with an OpenSCAP tailoring file, which may be created in SCAP Workbench.
